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Gizmodo has partnered with the independent market research provider Statista to identify the top universities within 25 fields of study that we believe will define the 21st century. But which academic disciplines did we look at, and why? The following fields we’ve identified as Degrees of the Future reflect the technologies, cultural shifts, and challenges […]
Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet in China, published what could have been an exciting piece of news: Researchers recorded radio signals that looked like evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Rogue blips from an advanced alien civilization made their way to Earth? Well, probably not, because the twist here isn’t that we may […]
Anthony Fauci, perhaps the most well-known public health figure in America, has contacted covid-19. Health officials said Wednesday afternoon that the 81-year-old Fauci tested positive for the coronavirus, reportedly for the first time. He’s said to be experiencing mild symptoms currently. Fauci is the long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases […]
NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today. UAPs are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) with less of a little-green-alien connotation about them. And that’s reasonable, because things labeled UFOs may not be flying objects at all, but instead optical illusions, image artifacts, […]
Congress is holding its first public hearingon unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) in decades in light of a number of videos captured by U.S. Navy pilots that show odd-looking flying vehicles. The hearing will be held by a House panel today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. EDT, and you can watch it live on the committee’s YouTube […]
UFO sightings are no longer restricted to grainy YouTube videos or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will hold the first congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to follow up with a Pentagon report that was released last June on U.S. military sightings of unidentifiable flying vehicles. The hearing, scheduled […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. Have you ever had one of those conversations where half the people in the room have a […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain, I’m Shankar Vedantam. All of us have had moments when we censor ourselves. A friend says something, we disagree, but […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. Parents, at least of a certain era, used to tell their kids, “If you can’t say anything […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. In the 1960s, the psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was studying patients with terminal illnesses. She noticed a pattern […]